18.12-PRERELEASE-2 Available

This release is our last scheduled “pre-release” version of Project Trident and is based on the newly tagged 18.12-stable branch of TrueOS.

There are a couple important fixes with this release:

AppCafe loading of the package repo is now functional again. The AppCafe may need to be opened a couple times before the package repository has been fully downloaded and is ready for use.

The “about” utility has been updated a little bit to better reflect the current system hardware and versioning. This includes all the information necessary to fetch the complementary versions of the TrueOS source and ports repositories for doing customized builds of applications or kernel enhancements.

WARNINGS

The personacrypt utility is unavailable with this version of Project Trident. If you have your home directory on a personacrypt USB drive, then we recommend migrating your data back to the local hard drive before doing any updates.

We have been experiencing a lot of build failures due to the “pefs-kmod” port which personacrypt uses not reliably staying in sync with the FreeBSD kernel sources. Because of this, we highly recommend that you migrate away from PersonaCrypt and to some other personal encryption system as soon as possible, since Project Trident can no longer guarantee that PEFS and/or personacrypt will be available for every release.